Filosofit

Filosofit is a philosophical movement and intellectual community that centers on practical inquiry into everyday life. It emphasizes dialogic reasoning, ethical deliberation, and the use of ordinary experience as a legitimate source of philosophical insight.

Origin and scope

Filosofit emerged in the late 1990s from the Circle of Solis, a loose collective of scholars who sought to reconnect philosophy with daily living. It opposed dogmatic absolutism and overly abstract systems that ignore lived experience.

Core tenets

Its core tenets include a commitment to dialogue, intellectual humility, and a pragmatic criterion of plausibility: ideas are valuable to the extent that they improve judgment in real-life situations. The movement draws on pragmatism, phenomenology, and the Socratic method, but rejects relativism without rejecting inquiry.

Practice and methodology

Filosofit organizes public salons, reading circles, and reflective journaling. It treats philosophy as an ongoing practice rather than a finished system, welcoming both formal argument and informal discussion, with a special emphasis on ethical reflection in community life.

Reception and influence

In academia, Filosofit is considered a heterodox current, while outside universities it is valued for accessibility and practical relevance. Critics argue that it lacks theoretical cohesion; proponents say its strength lies in concrete guidance for everyday decision making.

Notable works

Notable publications include The Everyday Compass (2005), Dialogues in Motion (2012), and An Ethical Map of Common Life (2018).

See also

Pragmatism, Socratic method, Dialogical philosophy, Ethic of care.